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Our production-ready, Twitter-scale Mastodon implementation in 100x less code than Twitter wrote to build the equivalent feature-set (just the consumer product)
by nathanmarz 3y ago
Our production-ready, Twitter-scale Mastodon implementation in 100x less code than Twitter wrote to build the equivalent feature-set (just the consumer product) begs to differ that it's "a bunch of buzzwords". https://github.com/redplanetlabs/twitter-scale-mastodon https://github.com/redplanetlabs/twitter-scale-mastodon
- bawolff 3y agoIs it actually powering a site the scale of twitter? If no, then there is no reason to think its twitter scale.
- lpapez 3y agoExactly this. Filling some kind of a database with terabytes of data is not the difficult bit, serving it is... To claim that something static is "Twitter-scale" is just misleading IMO.
- nchammas 3y agoThey _did_ serve the data. From TFA: > To demonstrate its scale, we operated the instance with 100M bots posting 3,500 times per second at 403 average fanout. The linked post about their demo [1] has more details about the challenges involved, including rendering home timelines. [1]: https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/ https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the...
- bawolff 3y agoMeh,its better than nothing, but real world traffic is often very different than simulated traffic. If it isn't actually working with real traffic than i am not impressed.